Re: Sale and purchase workflow

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Open For Small Business Ltd, Graeme Gellatly

- 09/17/2015 17:24:46

Actually looking forward to this change. Might jump early to 9 than intending depending on how buggy it is, whether they get fixed. Seems to fit nicely for my business even though I can see it being a lot of rewrite work for existing customizations. I get that for complex installs it may create issues but for me the existing workflows create issues too and training users in what scenario to use what workflow is always fun.

Fun fact, around 50% of our database CPU time is deleting workflow related records. Another 5-10% is creating them. Now of course stock moves is the large majority of these, but still less contention on that table all good by me.

Of course a roadmap would be nice, especially since only a few days ago a code freeze was announced. Seems every release a massive surprise hits just before launch. 6.0 - not 5.x, new web client, 6.1 - Hmm no surprises I remember, 7.0 - Partner Model, 8.0 Reports/Products, 9.0 Sale/Purchase and ???. Also agree that perhaps the first few months an early release stable policy should be maintained where outright refusal of changes isn't the norm and can be considered or at least a one month Release Candidate period. There will be errors and oversights and there really isn't very thorough testing in these modules. How do I know this - see previous surprises.